We have this thing in our house where we talk almost exclusively in quotes. Little family sayings that we apply to daily life. Whether it’s the most sarcastic line from Bridesmaids — “you do?” — or Hannibal Lecter’s deliciously camp — “And senator, love your suit!” — your timing has to be pitch perfect. We have a ceramist friend and describe her as a “potter” in a sneering Draco Malfoy voice. It’s a tennis match. Serve an “Oh my god. Look at her butt” and begin a rally that could end with “Zooby Zooby Zoo” or “Molly, you in danger girl”.

These little saying are shorthand affection that reference a shared history in little smoke signals of togetherness. Some of these quotes will be familiar but like babies accidentally brought up in the jungle by wolves, we talk in a language only we can understand the true meaning of.

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Of course, there’s one quote that unites all peoples and all families across the world: “Life finds a way”. So epic in its delivery in Jurassic Park (the first film in one of the biggest franchises ever), it’s impossible to forget. The line is delivered by a chaos mathematician played by Jeff Goldblum in a rather sexy, leathery, piratey take on the buttoned-up maths teacher trope. For anyone interested, I’m starting a new religion with Jeff Goldblum as the patron saint. We’ll have JeffGiving and Goldmas and at these gatherings we’ll watch all his films — Independence Day, The Life Aquatic, Annie Hall — while inadvertently developing new family sayings.

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This Friday finds me at the Royal Albert Hall, revisiting the prehistoric thrills of Jurassic Park as the Czech National Symphony Orchestra provides a live score. Queen Victoria opened The Royal Albert in 1871 and its magnificent dome has housed countless excellent events: The Eurovision Song contest; Miss World; Adele. The surroundings are a perfectly reverent setting to screen the 1993 reptilian blockbuster.

As the inventor of the Summer Blockbuster (see Jaws), Steven Spielberg spared no expense developing his dinosaur puppet and CGI masterpiece. On reflection, the film is preposterous — a theme park on a private island with almost zero security (someone foolishly assuming writing “10,000 volts” on a fence would deter dinosaurs).

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Naturally, things all go awry as the 65-million-year-old predators systematically escape (life finds a way, cough, cough) and there’s repeated pre-hysterical running and screaming until the close of the film. Some dinosaurs are really smart (clever girl). Others are really spitty. A tyrannosaurus eats a lawyer directly off the toilet and Richard Attenborough plays an over-excited Labrador millionaire. The paleontologists survive, but goat doesn’t make it. (The goat scene set to live cello is transcendental). The best part of a house party is always the kitchen, and the best scene in Jurassic Park follows suit with two children and two velociraptors forming some kind of refrigerated ladle-banging quartet.

I’ve always loved Steven Spielberg sartorially — a Hawaiian shirt and a white sock being the default outfit of every retired gay man — but Jurassic Park changed my life 25 years ago. I have never in my life been so scared I had to leave the cinema. I had a partial panic attack in the car and didn’t sleep for two weeks but this all led to a lifelong affinity to the film. Now, when I watch it I find all the running and screaming a comfort. I’ve had to limit my Jurassic screenings to one a year, to wean myself off like breastmilk, but they never fail to make me reminisce.

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The embryos of Jurassic are conceived in a land before time, but the film was conceived before iPhones and GPS and Goop, when Wellness was a twinkle in your mother’s eye. Jurassic Park is a sublime fantasy that hasn’t really dated, exactly like you and your first crush. The legacy of the film is attractive because it’s always nice to see eccentric millionaires learn the errors of their ways. *whispers* Elon Musk. And there’s the schadenfreude of a game hunter getting gobbled up by his own prey. Jeff Goldblum is pure oxygen. What we cannot underestimate is the appeal of an all-female populated island in the rocky era of Trump and #MeToo. As always, life finds a way.